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four miles south and west of Lerwick, and in the Island of Mousa 

 Birds have, for the last year or two, frequented the cliffs at the Ness 

 of Sound, less than a couple of miles from the town ; but I don't know 

 that they have yet nested there, and the other day they arrived at 

 the Knab, which is actually within the burgh boundaries. The last 

 mentioned place, however, they are not at all likely to colonise, as 

 the only sea-birds which successfully rear young there are the Black 

 Guillemots, who go so far into holes that they cannot be got at. 

 Geo. W. Russell, Lerwick. 



Fulmars in the Moray Firth. Some weeks ago I received 

 the head of a Fulmar Petrel which had been picked up on the 

 sands of Fraserburgh Bay, and which no doubt had been wounded 

 by a fisherman of Pennan shortly before. Since then I received 

 from Mr Wm. Norrie a photograph of a Fulmar shot at, or near, 

 Pennan Head, about $th May 1913. Mr Norrie writes: "Two 

 Fulmars were shot by a fisherman, but he only got one of them. So 

 the head sent you must likely belong to the one he did not get." 

 Both Pennan Head and Troup Head are bold promontories of the 

 North Aberdeenshire coast, and may prove to provide another 

 nursery of the species before long. J. A. Harvie-Brown, Dunipace 

 House, Larbert. 



Perch in Dumfriesshire and Galloway. Recently when 

 reading a manuscript by Robert Riddell of Glenriddell, written 

 about 1792, I came across the following note which is valuable: 

 "The Perch brought by the late Mr [Alexander] Copland [of 

 Collieston] to the Dee and the Ken [in 1750] were got from the 

 Loch at Friars Carse in Dumfriesshire, from whence all the Perch 

 that inhabit the different Lochs in Galloway and Dumfriesshire 

 were taken. From Friars Carse Loch, Perches were carried to 

 Lochrutton Loch, Loch Ken, Loch Kinder, and Kirkconnel Lochs 

 in Newabbey Parish ; to Lochmaben Lochs in Annandale, and 

 Closeburn Loch in Nithsdale. Tradition says they were brought to 

 Friars Carse by the monks from the Continent, and transported from 

 thence all over this part of Scotland." It would be interesting to 

 know in which of these lochs Perch are now to be found. Hugh 

 S. Gladstone, Capenoch, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. 



Palaemonetes varians (Leach), a brackish-water 

 Prawn, in the Forth Area. Immediately above the ferry pier 

 at Higginsneuk, on the Stirlingshire side of the Forth estuary, 

 opposite Kincardine-on-Forth, there is a saltmarsh of considerable 

 extent. On its extreme inland margin, some 200 yards back from 



